Velveteen Mindhttp://www.velveteenmind.com/velveteenmind/Velveteen Mindenhttp://velveteenmind.comhttp://www.velveteenmind.com/velveteenmind-feedburner-200.pngVelveteen MindMon, 23 Mar 2015 11:43:06 PDTTypePad http://www.typepad.com/All rights retained - Megan Jordan - Velveteen Mind - velveteenmind.comaudioblogs,audiobloggers,writing,family,freelance,writing,women,children,toddlers,bloggers,blogging,marriage,work,at,home,personalSociety & Culture/Personal JournalsKids & Familyvelveteenmind@gmail.comMegan JordanMegan Jordannoaudioblogs,audiobloggers,writing,family,freelance,writing,women,children,toddlers,bloggers,blogging,marriage,work,at,home,personalVelveteen Mind AudioblogsAudio versions (audioblogs) of Velveteen Mind posts, read by the author, Megan Jordan. VelveteenMind.com is a personal blog about parenting, writing, family, publishing, and the daily juggle of impaling devices. Or at least it seems like that when you are an at-home mom of two toddlers, scraping together a living online. Relish the velveteen, revel in the threadbare at Velveteen Mind.How Can a Small Pledge Make a Major Impact? Using Social Media for Social Good #MyPledge15http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/87535484/_/velveteenmind~How-Can-a-Small-Pledge-Make-a-Major-Impact-Using-Social-Media-for-Social-Good-MyPledge.htmlCause-Related Social MediaHurricane Katrina SeriesMississippi, Gulf Coast, the South#MyPledge15American Red Crosscause related marketingGulfportHurricane KatrinaMississippiMy Pledge 15MyPledge15social goodvelveteenmind@gmail.com (Megan Jordan)Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:06:11 PDTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451637969e201b8d0f249aa970c

This post made possible by BMF as part of the #MyPledge15 social good campaign.

Ten years ago this year, I stood in the front yard of my parents' Gulf Coast home trying to identify the direction from which a ringing bell was sounding. That ringing bell meant hot food.

I walked to the street and waited, hesitantly and hopefully flagging down the white truck emblazoned with an iconic red cross as it approached our intersection. I felt awkward and unworthy as I approached the slowing vehicle. This was a middle class neighborhood, not a village struck by a tsunami. This was Hurricane Katrina. I should be able to just shake it off and bootstrap it. No electricity? Shake it off. Eating out of cans? Count yourself lucky.

Everything in me and around me seemed to suggest that my suffering wasn't good enough. It could be worse. Wind and waves reduced our home to a slab of concrete, all of our belongings washed out to the Gulf of Mexico, but we were alive and had a place to stay. I should just... be grateful.

But there's something about hot food and a smiling face. There's something about hot coffee and a hug. Yes, it could be worse but that didn't undo the damage. It didn't alleviate the gaping need.

The ringing bell of the American Red Cross symbolized something human I needed to feel that day and a forever pledge I have promised myself to keep for anyone suffering within my reach:

A social media initiative facilitated by Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald (BMF), guided by their slogan of "the strength to shout; the wisdom to whisper," and designed to shine a light on how a simple action can move us to do good, the goal of #MyPledge15 is to reinforce what we know to be true: A small pledge can have a major impact.

We just have to answer the call.

This isn't about any one cause. It's very much about what matters to you. #MyPledge15 is an invitation to publicly share a promise to take a small action in 2015 to support a cause or goal that matters to you. It's about small efforts making a difference.

How do you make your own pledge?

We ask that you publicly make your pledge using the hashtag #MyPledge15 on social media platforms like twitter, Facebook, your blog, Pinterest, and Instagram. Wherever you live online. In turn, we pledge to amplify your efforts by keeping the conversation going. Social media is more than a wall of sound: Real action is driven by digital conversations.

What does a pledge look like?

#MyPledge15 is to donate a box of books to my local library [@libraryname].
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I pledge to write about [@yourcause] and make a difference in 2015. Click http://bit.ly/mypledge15 and make your own pledge! #MyPledge15
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I pledge to volunteer 3 hours at my grandma's nursing home [@nursinghome] this year. Their team is a blessing. #MyPledge15
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#MyPledge15 is to RT 10 tweets from [@yourcause] this year and spread their good work. Find out more at http://bit.ly/mypledge15

My personal pledge:

In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross became a supporter of my family.

Driving the streets of Gulf Coast neighborhoods, sounding their bell to call sheltering families outside, they offered hot food, warm humanity, and financial assistance for people in need. They knew that not everyone could come to them so they came to us.

On this tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I pledge my 2015 to them. I pledge my vocal support as well as my financial support.

My pledge to you:

Moreover, I pledge to support the causes of my readers, my friends. That's you.

Make your pledge on your social platform(s) of choice using #MyPledge15 and leave a link in the comments below to your post or status update(s). Throughout the year, I will follow along with the progress of your pledge via #MyPledge15 and share a variety of them on my own platforms, either via retweets or FB shares or sharing them in my own words and highlighting your efforts.

On December 1, 2015, I will randomly select one pledge recorded in the comments below and donate $100 to the cause of your choice. The winning pledger will receive notification via email so be sure to register your comment with an email address.

Every pledge matters. No effort is too small.

What is your cause? How do you identify what matters to you?

So many people I meet tell me that they wish they had a cause to champion. Your pledge need not emanate from pain; your pledge can emanate from joy. Your cause can be linked to something that has happened to you or someone you care about. It can be a time when you received an unexpected kindness. Repay the source or pay it forward.

What is most important to you? Is it family? Pledge to donate food to a local food bank or share four calls to action from a family-focused charity's Facebook page.

Already support a cause? Perfect. My support of the American Red Cross is not new. Contribute to the #MyPledge15 conversation with your pledge of continued support, model how to take action, and get what matters to you in front of a new audience.

Push your energy out. Amplify your heart's desire by sharing it.

Share this post. Share #MyPledge15. Share your pledge.

Know someone who is passionate about a cause? Share this post with them. Tag them with #MyPledge15 when you see a pledge that moves you. Point them to My Pledge 15 for more information and encourage those you love to keep the conversation going.

Sharing what is important to you opens the door for us to learn more about what moves you and possibly more about what moves us. Sharing what is important to you might help someone else recognize what matters to them.

Your pledge is worth a pause. Your cause is worth a pledge.

Now you have a choice. You can click away to Pinterest or random scrolling on Facebook or you can pause and take an action. Ask yourself "What is my pledge?" Then just make it. It doesn't have to be perfect. It's perfect because it's yours.

What resonates with you? #MyPledge15 is ringing the bell. Come out and join us.

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Thank you to BMF for inviting me to take part in the #MyPledge15 campaign. A New Orleans public relations agency with a compelling philanthropic history (check out their work with Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation), they recognize the powerful impact social good has had on their community over the last decade. New Orleans is a community the world calls home and BMF wants to return the good juju.

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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
- Henri Matisse

I have long been a prisoner of my own rules. Rules that I set for myself, thinking that they will help guide me but that surely bind me, instead.

I frequently turn to this space when I feel the pressure of those bindings begin to tighten. Or perhaps it's not the tightening that I'm feeling but rather the outside limits of my self-imposed constraints when I begin to stretch myself again. I push against my own rules until I'm finally ready to cut them loose.

Stretch your arms to the heavens. Touch the sky. Pluck possibility from the clouds.

The work of French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning as it highlighted a new show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs." CBS Sunday Morning has long held influence over my own work patterns in unusually significant ways. I was inspired to become a serious writer after watching their segment on Michael Chabon, which included a peek at his backyard writing studio. I found constant momentum for my literary site, Story Bleed Magazine, in Sunday Morning's eclectic features. Their Henri Matisse segment struck a chord with the "prisoner" quote above and my mind hasn't stopped resonating since.

"It was at this point that he cut a man out of white paper, a drooping pinheaded figure, all sagging limbs and blazing red heart, mounted on a black ground with bombs detonating around him. He called it The Fall of Icarus, after the ancient Greek who fell to his death because he had tried to fly too near the sun, but Matisse's Icarus marked a beginning, not an end. It turned out to be the first step in a process of radical reinvention that would see him abandon oil paints altogether in favour of new techniques based on cut and painted paper."

Radical reinvention. Matisse was in his 70's when he created some of his most influential pieces.

A prisoner of myself.

So many of my self-imposed rules are based on a path I've created in my mind. I readily admit that I spend far more time than I should looking behind me on that path, analyzing where I've been and what choices I've made, than looking forward.

This is not a post declaring "I'm going to write more." This is a bomb blast to stop giving myself so many rules and, if you see yourself in my destruction, for you to do the same. This is a cry for me to stop believing so many lies. This is a plea to break free.

A prisoner of success.

I launched Velveteen Mind eight years ago this month. I have eight years of successes and failures and dreams and binding my mind. I have eight years of voices in my head doing their damndest to drown out the singular voice of my heart.

That's why the Henri Matisse quote struck me so. "An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success..."

I need to break free of the prison of the mind that I have built for myself.

Whether you have been pursuing your dream for six months or six decades, I suspect some of this will resonate with you, too.

The Fall of Icarus.

The Matisse cut-out above is titled The Fall of Icarus.

There is symmetry and coincidental beauty there and it comes via Cirque du Soleil.

Photo credit: Cirque du Soleil

Long-time readers of Velveteen Mind know of my love of Cirque du Soleil and my pure fandom as I have traveled cross-country to catch their productions. I have never, however, thought to reach out to them and offer story coverage. As such, when they headed to New Orleans, we bought tickets and considered it done. It wasn't until Sunny, my partner at Wonder and Company, took part in a press event for Cirque du Soleil's Kurios in San Francisco that I realized I had something to offer.

If only I let them know I was here. To do so, I would need to loosen my bindings.

Sunny knows the value of being an online writer better than most and thinks nothing of reaching out and offering her talents. That's part of my point. While I wait for invitations or nods of approval, Sunny sees nothing but work to be done.

A prisoner of reputation.

This disparity comes from years of my, indeed, receiving invitations to share my talent. Years of receiving unsolicited nods of approval. I'll swallow my pride and acknowledge that on some level, I wished that Cirque du Soleil (or insert any other coveted thing or event) would come to me.

Thank God I got over that. Thank goodness I got over myself.

The traveling production was Cirque du Soleil's Varekai. The story of Icarus and his fall to earth.

A prisoner of style.

When I reached out to their team, I thought and rethought my approach half a dozen times. Should I list my accomplishments as a writer? Should I highlight what I could offer them in terms of potential ticket sales? Or... should I let them see the real me? The complete fan.

I went for full-on dork. I linked to my About page and then dove head-long into my passion for Cirque du Soleil and what exclusive access would mean to me. I raved and swooned and openly let them see me dream. I asked for what I never dared dream of: for them to do my makeup as a Cirque performer.

I promised to be professional once I got there but I let my heart's glow blow open the door.

They said yes. They said absolutely. They said of course.

Actually being professional (read: professionally detached and unbiased) was far more difficult than I anticipated. It's like going on a press junket and everyone around me blandly acknowleding that, yes, the Disney Vault is interesting and, sure, the thought that goes into the design of The Atlantis is thorough, when all I want to do is throw open my arms and cry, "THIS IS AMAZING!" with all the wide-eyed wonder that those experiences deserve.

Because who are we being cool for?

Stretch your arms to the heavens. Touch the sky. Pluck possibility from the clouds.

The team at Cirque du Soleil smiled kindly when my compliments turned to raves. They greeted me with "So we heard you are a fan" and then took me backstage.

I sat at a lighted mirror and tried not to tear up as Emily McCarthy, a young acrobat, applied her character makeup to my barely-able-to-conceal-the-joy face for over an hour.

I exclaimed in glee when I saw myself as a Cirque du Soleil performer in the mirror and tried to memorize every moment of what it felt like before the makeup remover appeared, all too soon.

Everything, all too soon.

That, too, is my point. We're so busy rearranging the furniture of our self-imposed prisons of success and expectations and rules that we stop perceiving time as it is.

We have forever and no time at all.

Eight years later and I fear that I could have done so much more. I wish I had asked for fewer opinions and more stars from the sky.

I wish I had soared closer to the sun.

Varekai finds Icarus after he has fallen and, instead of dashed in the ocean, imagines a world in which he has landed in a forest of magical creatures. Wonder follows.

My dreams are really and truly so big. My dreams are populated with magical creatures, green forests, and blue waters. It's time to soar closer to the sun.

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Want to see the full makeup tutorial and story of my day with Cirque du Soleil? Check out Part 1 of my Varekai coverage at Wonder and Company and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter while you are there for the complete makeup experience (plus video) coming soon. Subscribe to Velveteen Mind's newsletter? You'll receive a heads up in the "elsewhere" columns when my next Cirque piece is up, too.

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Set to launch to the first round of members later this month, we are finally putting into motion something we, as an online community of writers with no real place to call our own, have dreamed of for years. Be among those first members by signing up for our newsletter. It's a paid community and it will be so worth it. Our own place. To work, to collaborate, to teach, and build something brilliant.

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Please come visit us today, share us with your venturesome friends, and help Wonder and Co. ring in our new celebration of adventure and whimsy!

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Two markedly different projects, to be sure, but ones I love and am so proud to share with you. Hopefully at least one will appeal to your interests, as I'd love to see you there!

At SPRF, I am presenting the session Integrated Marketing and Diminishing Returns: Return to Storytelling as Magnet and Mirror. You can find me at Type-A Parent in Atlanta speaking with New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner of My Brown Baby on the panel Refining Your Voice: How to Write Posts People Can't Stop Reading.

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